Haiyan Veterans Recall Five Years After Disaster

October 28, 2018

Local hurry to beat the cutoff time on the last day of Tzu Chi's three-day medical mission. The courtyard of Leyte Progressive High School swells with hundreds of families seeking treatment.

Date:

October 28, 2018

Place:

Tacloban City, Leyte

Photographer:

Jonas Trinidad

Source:

Tzu Chi Foundation, Philippines

A beeline of patients wait for their turn outside the Dental department. Five years after Yolanda, many families still turn to Tzu Chi for assistance.

Date:

October 28, 2018

Place:

Tacloban City, Leyte

Photographer:

Jonas Trinidad

Source:

Tzu Chi Foundation, Philippines

A spread of dental tools enables dentists to work patient after patient without pausing for too long.

Date:

October 28, 2018

Place:

Tacloban City, Leyte

Photographer:

Jonas Trinidad

Source:

Tzu Chi Foundation, Philippines

A dental patient opens wide for a TIMA's dentists effort to pull out a bad tooth.

Date:

October 28, 2018

Place:

Tacloban City, Leyte

Photographer:

Jonas Trinidad

Source:

Tzu Chi Foundation, Philippines

TIMA dentist Lee Yipang treats his patient with ease. It wasn't this way the first time he came to post-Yolanda Tacloban, as he and his colleagues had to make do without power and water.

Date:

October 28, 2018

Place:

Tacloban City, Leyte

Photographer:

Jonas Trinidad

Source:

Tzu Chi Foundation, Philippines

Prophylaxis wouldn't have been possible with power and water, as TIMA dentist Hsieh Chin-ling said. Five years later, with normal life in Tacloban having resumed, he could finally put every effort in helping his patients.

Date:

October 28, 2018

Place:

Tacloban City, Leyte

Photographer:

Jonas Trinidad

Source:

Tzu Chi Foundation, Philippines

The General Medicine department's dispensing area is chock full of people waiting for their prescriptions to be released.

Date:

October 28, 2018

Place:

Tacloban City, Leyte

Photographer:

Jonas Trinidad

Source:

Tzu Chi Foundation, Philippines

Tzu Chi volunteers keep up with the increasing demand for medicine from the Pharmacy department.

Date:

October 28, 2018

Place:

Tacloban City, Leyte

Photographer:

Jonas Trinidad

Source:

Tzu Chi Foundation, Philippines

In a display of compassion, TIMA physician Chan Chiew Yong hugs one of her patients after a successful acupuncture. While still needing her wheelchair, the patient feels at ease knowing that her mobility can be restored one step at a time.

Date:

October 28, 2018

Place:

Tacloban City, Leyte

Photographer:

Jonas Trinidad

Source:

Tzu Chi Foundation, Philippines

TIMA physician Chan Chiew Yong flexes her patient's legs using a towel in hopes of restoring some mobility. She's happy to be treating a lot of patients unlike her first time in Tacloban, where the TCM department was virtually empty on the first day.

Date:

October 28, 2018

Place:

Tacloban City, Leyte

Photographer:

Jonas Trinidad

Source:

Tzu Chi Foundation, Philippines

TIMA nurse Lim Kim Yan attends to a surgery patient. Like many of her colleagues on their first tour of duty in Tacloban, Lim was at a loss as to what to do in a place ruined by disaster.

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